If the State has a Project Agreement with the Regional Office (RO) or Processing Centers’
Disability Processing Branch (PC-DPB), the jurisdiction of cases that would belong
to the Disability Determination Services (DDS), are transferred from the DDS to the
PC-DPB named in the agreement. These agreements will specify the:

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effective date,

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period of time, and

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case type being transmitted.

The RO notifies Field Offices (FO's) whenever a State has a Project Agreement that
requires the FO to route disability cases directly to PC-DPB.

For cases transferred within the Project Agreement to PC-DPB, jurisdiction ends when
a determination is made or the jurisdiction is transferred to the FO or DDS as a no
determination/transfer (ND/TR) case.